The Awakening was a movement that was based off people looking for ways they could make living on Earth as heavenly as possible. One was the abolitionists movement that wanted to end slavery. Since people looked for a world that was basically perfect, they figured the enslavement of people had to end. Another reform movement was utopian societies. Utopian societies emerged during the awakening such as Brooks Farm and New Harmony to create a perfect government for everyone. Everyone would share everything and would put in the same amount of work to get the same benefits. However, these utopians would not work out since people would get the same benefit for less work.
So that the Panama Canal could be built. This would make it easier for the United States to move their ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa.
